Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 14608, Ephraim Everson, Mass. Sea Service

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass. Sea Service
Everson, Ephraim Delano, Susanna
W. 14608
Former widow
CONTENTS

Massachusetts 1745
Susanna Delano, formerly widow of Ephraim Everson
Mah who died on the 20. August 1787 of Plymouth Co. in the State of Mass. who was a Cook in the Brig Independence commanded by Captain Sampson of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Navy time for 14 months & 2 days
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 63 Dollars 30 Cents, per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of Jan. 1838 and sent to Hon. J. Q. Adams, A.R.
Arrears to the 4th of Sep. '37. 411.45 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Mar. '38. 31.65
$443.10
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 - }
Recorded by D. Brown
Clerk,
Book 4. Vol. 2 - Page 49

Suzannah Delano V 1847 late the wid of Ephm Everson Maps
Ms. A. 9. 2. 22 J. H. Lord, Plymo, Mass May 2

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss
on this thirteenth day of April 1837 personally appeared before the Hon. Wilkin Wood Judge of the court of Probate for said County Susannah Delano a resident in Duxbury in said County of Plymouth & state of Massachusetts aged seventy nine years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836 and the act explanatory of said act passed March 3 d 1837 - That she was married to Ephraim Derron who was a soldier in the war of the Revolution & served Eleven months by an enlistment onboard the Brig Independence an armed vessel built for a vessel of war by the state of Massachusetts Command- ed by Simeon Sampson he entered onboard said Brig in the summer of 1776 she thinks in July & after cruising a short time they were captured by a British man of war & carried to Halifax where he remained prisoner onboard the Rainbow 50 gun ship & was exchanged the first part of the summer of 1777 having been absent Eleven months soon after his return home he was in the latter part of 1777 drafted from the militia & went to a place called

Long Island Rhode Island & served eight months exactly where she cannot remember but she knows he served in the Army at this time eight months & was never well after he returned home the whole period of his services was nineteen months She further declares that she was married to the said Ephraim Everson on the 4 th day of August 1774 — & that her husband the aforesaid Ephraim Everson died on the 20 th day of August 1787 That she afterward was married to Baruch Delano who died on the 21 st day of September 1827 & that she was a widow on the 4 th day of July 1836 & still remains a widow or will more fully appear by reference to the proof annexed sworn to & subscribed on the day & year above written before
Susanna per Delano mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year first above written before me: And I further certify that the said Susanna Delano is a credible person & by reason of age and bodily infirmity is unable to travel to any Court to make her declaration.
Wilkes Wood Judge of the Court of Probate for the County of Plymouth

Plymouth ss. I Jacob H Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Hon Willies Wood is Judge of Probate for said County & that the foregoing is his true & genuine signature
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County this twenty seventh day of April 1837
Jacob H. Lord

Joseph Sampson. Clerk of the Town of Kingston hereby certify that on the 68 th page of the Town Records in my possession I find recorded of the persons mar- ried by the Rev William Rand August 11 1774 Ephraim Everon & Susannah Broadford,, given under my hand at Kingston this Eighteenth day of April 1837 Joseph Sampson Town Clerk of Kingston
State of Massachusetts,
Wymouth Co On the day & year above written personally appeared the above named Joseph Sampson & made oath to the truth of the above statement by him subscribed before me I further certify that the aforesaid Joseph Sampson is a credible person & his testimony is entitled to credit
Seth Sprague Jr. J. C. Dean.

For Samuel S. ...

SUBMIT IN DUPLICATE. am
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PHONE Branch 476
All inquiries regarding this job should refer to Requisition No. 22926
Requisition for Duplicating, Addressograph, Photostat, and Blue Print Work.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR WASHINGTON
CHIEF, Division of Publications, Room G 137.
April 21, 1928 192
Please furnish work specified below.
Bureau ordering PENSION
Deliver to Room No. 5033
(ALL COPY FOR DUPLICATING WORK SHOULD BE PLAIN AND WRITTEN IN ELITE TYPE, EXACTLY LINE FOR LINE AS IT IS TO APPEAR ON FINISHED JOB.)
Title and description of job photostatic copies of 8 pages from Rev. War pension claim W. 14208, Susanna Delano, former widow of Ephraim Everson.
one negative and one positive.
No. of copies 2 of each page shall form be kept standing? ..... days
For further information see M. M. H. Finch Room No. 5033 Phone No. 541
Approved:
Actg Chief Clerk of Bureau. g
Margaret M. H. Finch Chief of Branch or Division.
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BUREAU OF PENSIONS Finance Division
1928
..... Apr. 21, 1928
Chief Rev. & 1812 Wars Section Division.
Photostatic copies of eight pages (one copy) from Revolutionary War Delano, former widow of Ephraim 1808. Not to be certified.
I have this day received from Evelyn B. Baldwin each ..... in the amount of $ 2 40 ....., requesting photostat copy as per letter herewith.
Copies furnished Finance Div. 4-24-28 J. J. Randall
B. Baldwin
..... J. J. RANDALL Chief, Finance Division.
W. L. L.
B. Baldwin.
Margaret M. ... inch
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

April 21, 1928
Commissioner of Pensions
Sir:
Please furnish me photostatic copies of eight pages (both negative and positive copies) from Revolutionary War pension claim of Susanna Delano, former widow of Ephraim Everson, Widow File No. 14808. Not to be certified.
Signed,
Evelyn B. Baldwin
Evelyn B. Baldwin.
Received payment
$ 3.40
April 21, 1928
Margaret M. V. Finch
Rev. & 1812 Wars Section

Rev
WIDOW, &c.
1928. Apr. 28 - Photo to E. B. Baldwin - MMS
File No. 14688
Susanna Island
Widow of
Ephraim Everson
Rev. Rev. War
Act: July 4 th 86
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 176
[Arrangement of 1870.]

V Susannah Delano late the widow of Eph m Everson M ap . Sus. let. J th Lond June 22 d 1837 Do. d. No 2 Adams Oct 19 1837
Attest 4 July 1838

... June 1 1777
Sum Hampton Series - during the Cont. War
1 July 5 July 1777
Epiphany Church / 6 mo -
Vil 39 p 617 6 5
from 22 Sept 76 to 1 Jan 77 3 mo 8 d
Vil 39 p 8
" " 11 May to Sept 4 d 9
Vil 9 p 42
Prison exch 25th June 77 from Halifax
Epiphany Church Independent Prisoner
Hope Penn
Palmer -
Harvey Nat
True Blue Br

Vol 9 p. 42
Independent Cap. Sampaio was a private

I Howard Chandler of Duxbury aged seventy eight years hereby certify that I served onboard the Brig Independence mounting fourteen Guns commanded by Simeon Sampson in the war of the Revolution & that Ephraim Eveson of Kingston deceased was also a sailor onboard said Brig we sailed from Plymouth Mass & went a cruise of six weeks, when we returned & soon sailed again & when five or six weeks out we were captured by a British cruise & carried to Halifax & there kept Prisoners of war I did not get exchanged until about fifteen months from my first entering onboard & it is my impression that said Eveson was there as long but I am not positive that he was not exchanged before we entered on board the latter part of the summer of 1776 & did not get home until January 1778 I further that Deborah Delore was the wife of said Ephraim Eveson at the time we were onboard said Brig Independence & that she subsequently married Baruch Delore deceased & that she was a widow on the 4 th of July 1836 & is still a widow given under my hand at Duxbury this fifteen th day of April 1837
Howard F Chandler mark
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss On the day & year above written personally appeared Howard Chandler & subscribed & made oath to the truth of the above statement before me I further certify that Howard Chandler above named is a credible person & his testimony is entitled to full credit
Seth Sprague Jr. Clerk

Samuel Deros aged sixty seven years hereby Certify that my father (now deceased) was carpenter on board the Brig Independence (commanded by Simon Sampson) & that I have heard him say that Ephraim Purser (late of Kingston deceased) was a sailor on board said Brig & that they were prisoners together at Halifax & that said Purser was his mess mate & recalled hearing my father say that he attempted to escape by swimming to a fishing craft & that he was taken & put in (from a confined) in the hold on the shot in his wet clothes that in the night he called to the guard & told him he should suffer to death & that his mess mate said Ephraim Purser come to him with a change of clothes. I also remember that said Purser got home a little before my father & said Purser & his wife came to see my mother & brought some things still that my father sent & among them was a maple box full of pins. I further certify that said Samuel Deros who was the wife said Purser is a person of good character for truth & honesty & that I have no doubt but that what she declares about her said husband's service is true & I have no doubt that he served eight months at Rhode Island after he returned from prison. I further Certify that said Susannah Deros was the widow of said Ephraim Purser & subsequently the widow of Borech Deros & that she was a widow on the 4 th of July 1836 & is now a widow given under my hand at Duxbury this 25 th day of April 1837
Samuel Deros -

State of Massachusetts
Plymouth ss On the day & year within written person- -ally appeared the within named Samuel Delano & made oath to the truth of the within certificate by him subscribed before me I further certify that said Samuel Delano is a credible person & his testimony is entitled to credit
Seth Sprague Jr for Dean

The subscribers Selectmen & Clerk of the Town of Duxbury certify that Susannah Dillono is an inhabitant of this Town & that her husband Ephraim Everson is reputed to have served in the war of the Revolution & we have no doubt but that he served eleven months on board the brig Independence & as a prisoner & also eight months at Rhode Island as she declares we further certify that said Susannah Dillono has a good reputation for honesty & integrity & we most sincerely believe her declaration to be true notwithstanding it may not be in her power to bring living witnesses of the fact at the time her husband performed the service for which she claims a pension they lived in another Town & the men who were then her neighbours & would have been likely to have known the facts she declares are dead - we further certify that Susannah Dillono formerly the wife of Ephraim Everson was a widow on the 4 th of July 1836 & still remains a widow given under our hands at Duxbury this twenty fifth day of April 1837
J. F. Wadsworth } Selectmen Benj. Allen } Duxbury Silvester Smith } Nathl Partridge Clerk of (Duxbury)

Plymouth ss State of Mass On the day & year within written personally appeared the within named J. F. Woodworth Ben- jamin Alden Silvanus Smith & Ralph Portridge & made Oath to the truth of the within certificate by them subscribed before me I further certify that the aforesaid J. F. Woodworth Benjamin Alden Silvanus Smith & Ralph Portridge are credible persons & their testimony is entitled to credit
Seth Sprague Jr. Jur. Bear

Plymouth Is State of Mass
On the day & year within written personally appeared the within named Samuel D. Dorr & made oath to the truth of the within certificat. by him subscribed before me. I further certify that said Samuel D. Dorr is a credible person & his testimony is entitled to full credit. —
Setth Sprague Jr. J. P.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Plymouth ss. I Jacob H. Lord Register of Probate for said County do hereby certify that Seth Sprague Junior Esq is a Justice of the Peace in & for said County & that the several signatures to the an- nexed affidavits purporting to be signed by him are his true & genuine signatures.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & the seal of the Probate Court for said County this twenty sixth day of April 1837.
Jacob H. Lord

Census George W. 19. Dec m 1834 21. Dec m 1837. rec d
Pension claim of Susanna Delano.
Issue a certificate for $63 \frac{30}{100} per ann.
Hon. J. Q. Adams H. R.

War Department,
Pension Office,
December 19, 1837.
Sir,
I return herewith the letter of M c Sprague upon the subject of the claim of M rs Susanna Delano, late Everson, and have the honor to state, that at the time this claim was first examined, no roll of the Brig "Independence" was found. But a list of prisoners was, on which the name of Ephraim Everson was borne, as having been captured on board the "Independence Privateer". The word "privateer" was evidently improperly added, for the rolls of Captain Simeon Sampson of the Brig "Independence" are now found, from which it appears that M c Everson served as cook fourteen months and two days. For this service the widow may now be allowed a pension of $63 \frac{30}{100} per annum.
If proof hereafter be furnished in support of M c Everson's service in the militia of Massachusetts, an increase of pension will be allowed. Should you so direct, a certificate for the amount above named will be immediately issued.
Hon. J. L. Duns, } House of Reps. }
I have the honor to be, very respect ly y r A ss t. Sec. Geo. M c Crump